Then Copley Banks glanced at the steward, and the man took a coil of rope from the shot-rack behind him.

But evidently his wealth hasn't been a comfort to him, or he wouldn't want to shuffle off his mortal coil and leave it behind" They did not see the object of this conversation before leaving for the trip to Point Lomaa promontory that juts out far into the Pacific.

These he threw in a coil over his arm.

He fastened one end of it to a projecting stone and he carried the coil in the breast of his coat, paying it out as he advanced.

She raised her hands to her neck and loosened the coils of pearls about it as though she meant to lift them off and return them to the giver.

To him the king went, and unravelled all the coil.

A moment later a sailor passed along the edge of the dock, dragging a coil of rope after him, and must have answered some hail on his way, for instantly a whisper passed swiftly from man to man.

Seriously, as though he were engaged upon a game, he would cut the skin into thinnest strips, unbroken to the end, and would hold up the coil for us to see.

Then wait thine hour, when the last ship shall wind Her cable coil for home!

I had my lantern; and he showed me a coil of taper which he had ready for use.

It was much easier to leave the machine for the night, run into Worcester on the trolley which passed along the same road, and bring out a new coil in the morning.

I saw a coil of fuse lying somewhere.

When evil folk arrive to raven and devour the realm, then all these eagles gather themselves together, making great coil and clamour, and arraying themselves proudly one against another.

To those offensive arms he added five coils of those strong flexible ropes that the whalers call "lines," and which measure six hundred feet in length.

As early as 1842, Masson and Bréguet constructed an induction coil by means of which minute sparks could be obtained from the secondary, in vacuo.

He almost screamed aloud as some one stole up behind and dropped over his throat the soft cold coil of a lariat.

In another experiment he employs a simple hollow coil, or helix, of insulated wire whose ends are connected with a galvanometer.

"Till religion, the pilot of the soul, have lent thee her unfathomable coil.

Katherine stood up in the boat paying out both coils of rope.

The internal arrangements of the boiler are composed of a large number of tubes, lying across in a horizontal position, put together in sections with return bends resembling the coils for heating buildings.

Her plump white hands dexterously twisted and secured the long burnished coil.

He seized a coil of rope, and with a speed which surprised even himself, climbed up a tall oak tree, whose branches overshadowed the roof of the ell part.

He wears the Queen's uniform; and what is more, he knows his work, and can do it; all make a silent ring while the fork is planted; the Lieutenant, throwing away the end of his cigar, kneels and adjusts the stick; Brown and his mates examine and shake out the coils of line.

Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.

Even the exclusive and therefore blind worship of science will, when it has turned the coil of the ascending spiral, result in a new song to "him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters."